Tweet So, this is interesting. On Wednesday, a press release comes in from IBM. Big Blue, it read, was “awarded 10 year $ 1 billion cloud hosting contract to assist US Department of Interior’s move to cloud computing.” This, an IBM spokeswoman said, is the company’s largest cloud contract to date — and is larger than the $ 600-million secret CIA cloud contract which was awarded to Amazon in a decision contested by…

Tweet Microsoft announced the Season Pass Guarantee for Xbox One games, where gamers can buy a Season Pass for participating Xbox 360 games and automatically get the same pass for the Xbox One version. Read more… Neowin

Tweet A young girl’s parents were startled when they heard voices coming from their daughter’s room. They found outthat someone had broken into the webcam and was verbally abusing the child. Read more… Neowin

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